Cron Manager - Cron Jobs Manager

The website has 10 cron scripts from different modules. When was each one last run? Were they successful? Are they even set up in crontab? Without a tool — it's SSH, manual log digging, and no overview.

Cron Manager solves this with one module: one line in system crontab, and all tasks — in OpenCart admin. A table with statuses, manual execution, execution log.

Task table — everything in one place

The main page of the module — a table of all registered tasks. No SSH needed for monitoring.

What you see at a glance

Name, type (PHP / Shell / URL), command, schedule, last run with date and duration, next run, status, toggle switch

Statuses

● Successful ● Error ● Running ● Never run

3 types of tasks

PHP

Absolute path to PHP file. Runs through PHP CLI with configured timeout.

Shell

Any shell command: bash script, utility, command chain.

URL

HTTP GET request to the specified URL. Convenient for cron endpoints of third-party modules.

Manual execution and execution log

Run now

"Run" button in the task row → AJAX call → spinner → modal window with result: status, duration, full script output. Result is saved to log.

Execution log

"Logs" button opens the log for a specific task: date, duration (ms), status, output, who ran it — scheduler or manually. Last 50 records are stored.

One line in crontab — and that's it

No need to add each task separately to system crontab. One bootstrap script runs every minute and decides which tasks are ready to execute.

* * * * * php /var/www/site/crons/cron_manager.php

Ready-made line in UI

The module shows the exact line for your server with a copy button — just paste it into crontab

Protection against hanging

If a task gets stuck in "Running" state longer than timeout + 30 sec — the next cycle will run it again

Timeout per task

Each task has its own timeout (default 60 sec). A hung process will be stopped

Convenient task creation and discovery

Scanning /crons/

"Scan" button finds PHP files in the /crons/ directory that aren't yet in the task list and offers to register them immediately. Already added ones — are not duplicated.

Schedule preview

When entering a cron expression in the "Schedule" field — the next run time is shown immediately. Link to crontab — right in the form.